Posted on 08/18/2018 2:03:38 PM PDT by simpson96
Chicago Police are under fire after allegedly parking a 'bait truck' full of designer shoes in an impoverished neighborhood, two days in a row.
Activists allege on at least one occasion last week, police parked the partially open truck near a group of children playing basketball in Englewood, southwest Chicago, in an attempt to lure them into committing a crime.
'Instead of stopping crime, they're trying to create it,' Martin Johnson, who spent an hour filming the second truck on Friday, said.
He was joined by another local woman, Helen, who said police were forcing an already at-risk group of people behind bars.
'When you live in the conditions that we live in, communities that are starving, and you're hungry, your conditions and your situations make choices for you,' she said, referencing the policeman who just a day before had claimed those arrested had made a 'conscious choice'.
'Whoever acted and went to jail yesterday, they didn't make a conscious decision, their conditions made a decision for them.' On both occasions, police are seen surrounded by furious residents, with marked and undercover police cars parked nearby.
While locals argue to police the trucks are a 'dirty' tactic, and officers are 'setting up' the community, law enforcement was seen arguing back anyone who engaged with the trucks was making a conscious decision.
Fellow activist Charles McKenzie, who works with anti-violence and crime prevention group God's Gorillas, told Vox he believed tactics like bait trucks would damage trust between the community and its local police force.
McKenzie said the alleged bait truck projected the idea police were focused on hurting members of the community, not protecting them.
'How do we supposed to trust [police] if they setting us up like this?' Mckenzie said. 'How can we trust them?'
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I read an article on the aftermath of Japan’s Fukushima evacuations.
Japan’s society is such that there is still hastily abandoned property left just as it was when the people were forced to flee.
“Before putting the dare decals on it, they decided to use it to challenge kids around town and were pulling over the kids that did it.”
Challenge kids how and did what ?
Well the Duhhhh,be a good fishy & dont take the bait
no one is making them even look into the truck.
“referencing the policeman who just a day before had claimed those arrested had made a ‘conscious choice’.’
Exactly. There was even a test at procter & Gamble when I interviewed with them and there was a $20 bill on the floor right after we exited the group interview. We knew it was a test because there was no one in the hallway and were figuring out if we were honest enough to return it..obviously.
The cops should have made it better by placing KFC buckets inside the truck..
‘When you live in the conditions that we live in, communities that are starving, and you’re hungry...
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If it were a bait truck full of food—even junk food, I might see their point. But a sneaker truck?
How’d you know who to return it to?
This point will be missed by half the people in the United States.
Ewwwwwe.
"Jes ansr me dat!"
“I believe that values, or lack of values, are a key issue here.”
That is most definitely an issue to contend with. At the same time, I believe it wrong to throw unnecessary temptation in people’s face here, just as it would be wrong to leave free beers out at an AA meeting.
My grandfather used the phrase “looks like two hogs fightin’ in a gunny sack”.
Gross, Buddy. That fat twerking bitch is disgusting.
but it is true! choices have consequences. Don’t take stuff that does not belong to you.
If you come across a car with the keys in it, that is not approval for stealing it, at least not outside the gibsmedat ghettos.
They be hungry alright. Done et everything not nailed down.
Can’t make a make a conscious decision if you have no conscious and or no sense of right vs wrong. If you are conditioned to believe society has wronged you and therefore you are entitled to take all you can get because it’s “owed to you,” you take it. Locks or no locks.
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